"Join the knights of the highway."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.

The silver knight and the river fairy.  From Belgian Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis, 1919.

"The dragon's story.  (Guaranteed strictly untrue.)"  From Imaginotions: Truthless Tales by Tudor Jenks, 1894.

Just shy of four decades before Alice went through the looking glass, some knights came riding "thro' the mirror blue" in Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott."  Actually, going through mirrors was an old pantomime gag by Harlequin, as mentioned decades even earlier in The London Magazine, 1822.

From Kladderadatsch, 1936.

"The knight in the dance of death."  From A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright, 1875.

"Sir Galahad receiveth the Sword of Strange Girdles."  From English Illustrated, 1907.

From Die Bühne, 1926.

The world's canker worm, from Pick Me Up, 1894.

From Die Muskete, 1928.

"He stuck the funnel into wan of the slits and in come the drink."  From Everybody's Magazine, 1908.

Sir Marmalade the Mouldy thumbs his nose at a sea monster.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1882.

From Die Muskete, 1918.

The four stages of bibliomania, from English Illustrated, 1895.